Unravelings

A note from Eli and Peyton

Hi Folks!

We just wanted you to know we are home from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We were visiting with Char and Arazi. It sure is pretty there and cool, not like the 100 degrees here at home.

We had a good time but as you can see they put us to work at Sears selling appliances. Boy, we cleaned up. Hope to see you soon. Eli and Peyton

A dog's life

I just got this from Peyton and Eli, my Mom's two 11 month old Vizslas:

Dear Char:

We are sorry we haven't written to you for a long time. But we have been very, very busy.

First we had to get over Peyton being attacked by that big Pit Bull. He had to have a lot of stitches and had to wear that funny thing on his head for weeks.

Then we went to Training class for 8 weeeks. The teacher said we were the smartest and most handsome ones in the class. That was really exciting until we looked around the room. There were only 6 of us in the class. One was a Jack Russell that had a real dumb owner. The teacher gave him a bag of treats to teach Jack to "leave it" and instead of taking the treats out of the bag and making him "leave it", he threw the whole unopened bag on the floor and said "leave it" Duh. Then we had Sadie, a pit bull-lab cross that had never been out of her yard except when she escaped. Then there was Max, we don't know what he was except dumb and ugly. There was the little one that had to lay on a soft pad and keep saying Si Senor. So we guess we were the smartest and most handsome. Anyway we got our certificate and we were happy that was over, except we heard Mom say we will be back for another class. Oh boy, but a dog has to do what a dog has to do.

Char, do you remember we had a tree with orange balls on it. Well, guess what, all the orange balls are gone and now it has little green balls on it. It sure is fun to bark at them and jump and try to pull them off. Dad yells at us when we bark a lot though. We just laugh at him. Love and sloppy kisses,

Peyton and Eli

The Manning Brothers Update

Payton had surgery on his left front leg yesterday and had all other wounds cleaned up. He got to go home last night but is in a lot of pain and is on antibiotics, steroids and pain killers. Keep your fingers crossed that he recovers fully. My Mom is worried about how he would handle it emotionally and only time will tell.

This pictire is of the boys playing at about 6 months old.

Payton and Eli and The Pit Bull

I got a horrible phone call from my Mom yesterday. While out shopping at a garden store, she was looking around while my Dad Paul was holding Payton (in blue collar) and Eli (in red collar) on their leashes beside their car.

Out of nowhere a pit bill appeared and attached both dogs. My Mom was able to get Eli away from the Pit BUll and put him in the car. Paul had to kick and kick and kick the Pit Bull to get him to release Payton. The owner of garden store also started kicking his dog, trying to get him to let go of Payton.

When they finally got Payton out of the grip of the Pit Bull, he had suffered horrific injuries on one front leg and one hind leg. The vet they took him to said that had the been grabbed by the neck or the belly he would be dead.

As of now Payton is still in the hospital and no one really knows how the injuries will affect his ability to walk, and how the attack will affect him mentally.

My Mom says Eli is wandering around whining, looking for his brother. Let's hope he can come home soon and will fully recover. I have asked my Mom to call Animal Control to report the Pit Bull and make sure the vet bills for Payton are paid by the owner of the Pit Bull.

The Manning boys: all legs

Here's what you get when you turn two six-month old Vizsla pups, Eli and Peyton, loose to play in the yard. If you can tell, Eli has the red collar and Peyton the blue collar, in honor of their respective football teams!

The Manning Boys: We don't like the dark

Dear Char: You would never guess what happened to us yesterday. Mom and Dad went to a friends house and left us outside. They decided to go to dinner and it got late and the sun disappeared and it got darker and darker and darker. We had never been out in the dark except to hurry and potty before we go to bed.

We were really scared so we tore up our toys and threw the cotton all over the back yard, dug up the rocks by the back gate and peed on the concrete. They were really mad but we made them feel bad for leaving us in the dark for so long. They ended up petting us and giving us an extra chewy. We Vizslas are really smart.

Love, Payton and Eli

A question from Eli and Payton

Dear Char:

Well, here we go again, asking you another question. This one has us baffled. Can we run our legs off? We heard Mom tell Dad that we were going to run our legs off. That would certainly be funny, not funny HAHA, just weird funny. We really think she meant to say that we were running her legs off. That would be even funnier.

Mom does say the craziest things.

Love, Eli and Payton

P.S. Sure hope we never give our Mom a black eye like our cousin Arazi did to you; we would be in deep, deep trouble. Hope it feels better soon!

More from Eli and Payton

Do you know where Siberia is? Mom told us if we hit that screen door one more time she is going to ship us to Siberia. We don't know where that is but we hope it is close to Jackson Hole, then you, Ron and Arazi can come visit us.

Not only that but Dad told us he is going to spank our puny butts just because we tore out the tubing that watered the plants.

Looks like we can't help but get in trouble. It's hard to be perfect but Mom told us to keep trying.

Love, Eli and Payten

A messaage from Eli and Payton

I got this e-mail from my Mom's 5 month old Visla puppies.

We are so excited, Mom told us this morning that you were coming to see us. We can hardly wait. Mom said you are just awesome and that you love Vizslas so we know we will love you as much as she does.

In fact, we are so excited that when Mom let us out this morning (and while she fixed our food) we hit the entry door to the garage and it is just a wonderful place. It has so many new and wonderful things that we had never seen before. We especially liked the soft roll of paper towels. We had so much fun tearing them up all over the garage. Mom said it looked like it had snowed in there, but of course we don't know what snow looks like. If it looks like the garage filled with soft paper towels torn to shreds we know we would like it.

Well, that put us in our crates while she cleaned up. (she called it a mess but we can't understand that), it looked good to us. we wanted to say "April Fool" but we knew that would just get us in more trouble.

So, we hope you have as much fun today as we have had (and its only 9:00AM.)

We can't wait to see you. We'll lick you face and make you eye all better

Love Eli and Payton